State v. McConnell

BLAIR, C.

Defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Christian county of fraudulently conveying certain real estate without reciting in the deed the whole or the substance of a prior trust deed executed by him, which covered the same property. Having been duly sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary, he appealed.

The evidence disclosed that defendant executed • to Pope, as trustee for Hale and McConnell, a deed of trust on the property described in the information at a time when he had only color of title thereto; that subsequently he acquired the legal title and thereafter…